Improvement in apparatus for vapor-baths



GEORGE n. Munito, sa.;

,'UNITED fS'Tirri-is.1- PATENT OFFICE.

OF ALBANY, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FCR VAPQR-BATHS.

Specification forming part of Letters'Patent No. l [3,911, dated April 18, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. MUNRO, Sr., of Albany, in the county of Gentry and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Medicated Vapor-Baths; and I do hereby declare the following description to be a full, clear, and exact specilication thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of the same, in which'- Y Figure 1 represents a front view of my bath 5 Fig. 2, a vertical cent-ral section of the same, taken through the line xwof Fig. l, and Fig. 3 a plan View thereof.

This invention relates to improvements in medicated vapor-baths; and consists of the construction and arrangement of the component parts thereof, all of which parts will be more fully hereinafter set forth and described. l

Similar letters of reference in the several gures above alluded to indicate corresponding parts of my invention.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the annexed drawing, A designates a casing or house, within which the patient to be treated sits, which is supplied with the door B, to admit of entrance thereto. In the top ot the house A, at a point in close proximity with the door B, is cut a circular opening, C, to receive the neck of the patient, who sits on the stool or chair D in A, said opening being provided or constructed with the wedge-shaped outlet c, which affords admission to said opening, and which is closed by a wedge-shaped rabbeted block, c', pivoted upon the top edge of the door B, the rabbets or tongues ot' block c entering grooves cut in the walls forming the sides of the said outlet c when the door B is closed. E E represent two hinged collars or pieces, which are hinged or pivoted, at one one of their ends, at points opposite each other, as seen in Fig. 3, to the top of the house A, and so constructed that,

when they are brought together at their opposite ends, enveloping or surrounding the upper part of the neck of, the patient, they will furnish a circular aperture, as shown at C, Fig. 3, the object of said collars being to prevent the medicated vapor from escaping from the house or bath A around the neck of the patent, thereby keeping it from contact with the nostrils. E designates an aperture made in the center of the top of the bath A, and covered by the cap F, which is furnished with an exit pipe or tube, f. F designates aslide, which slides over the opening E', and between the cap F and the top of the bath, the object of which slide being to admit of the escape ofthe vapor from the said bath, preparatory to the withdrawing of the patient therefrom. This slide is operated by a knob or handle fastened thereto.

G is a vessel, which is suspended, by any suitable means, from the inside of the top of the bath, and within which is introduced the medicine of the kind desired for evaporation. H is a cup or other suitable vessel with alcohol, situated or placed directly under the vessel G, and upon the circular top or plate of the vertically-movable cylindrical bar I of the frame or stand I in the bath A.

The alcohol in the cup H, which is represented as being' in a burning state, is for the purpose of evaporizing the medicine in vessel G.

J designates a sheet-metal board, which is secured to the bottom of the bath at its lower end, ofthe curvilinear form shown in Fig. 2, and'for the purpose of throwing or directing the heat arising from the burning of the alcohol or other suitable ijuid in the vessel H upward about the breast, shoulders, and neck of the patient, driving the disease with which said patient is ai'ected downward.

K is a vertical slide or door, sliding within cleats secured to house A, and covering an opening, K', through which it is intended that the heat may escape, when desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat` l. The house or casing A, supplied with the door B, having the wedge-shaped block c', the aperture or opening C c, collar-pieces E E, aperture E', slide F', lcap Ff, and open- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I ing with slide K, as and for the purpose de have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of scribed.. January, 1871, in presencev of two subscrbng 2. In combination with the above devices witnesses.

of claim, thesheet-nletal board J, stand or sup- GEORGE F. MUN R0, SR.

port I I', and vessels G and H, al1 constructed Witnesses:

and arranged substantially as and for the pur- J. F.- -HAMABEL Y pose set forth. S. H. DOWELL. f 3 i 

